Apart from poaching and habitat loss, climate change-induced droughts have been threatening the rhino population in Africa, pointed out a new report. On the other hand, climate disruptions in Asia can lead to the deaths of rhinos. Increased precipitation, longer monsoons and seasonal floods are already resulting in stranding, drowning …
YANGON - Myanmar authorities plan to shut down a notorious border town where exotic animal parts are sold openly, an official said Tuesday, as Southeast Asia struggles to stem a billion-dollar wildlife trade fuelled by Chinese demand. It is part of the "golden triangle," a hotbed of illegal activity, including …
Luanda — ANGOLA has pledged to combat the illegal trade in wildlife, which is part of wider global environmental crime, costing up to $258 billion per year. The country which on Sunday officially hosted World Environment Day (WED), the world's biggest day for positive environmental action, which is attempting to …
It is limited to African elephant ivory. It does not regulate ivory and bone derived from other animals, such as walruses, whales and mammoths The United States Fish and Wildlife Service has passed a rule to enforce a a near-total ban on elephant ivory trade. The rule fulfills restrictions under …
Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Sunday said that urban forestry will be the new thrust area of the government and steps will be taken to create "urban jungles (forests)" across 200 cities and towns across the country. "We will be taking up massive tree plantation drive in as many …
Illegal wildlife trade and habitat fragmentation that has increased human-wildlife conflict are threatening the wildlife across the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, an international expert has said. He said there is need for trans-boundary interventions to combat the challenges in wildlife conservation. There is a vast array of wildlife products like …
Chitwan National Park today marked zero poaching year at a programme to celebrate the fact that the park has not witnessed a single case of wildlife poaching for two consecutive years. A joint conservation operation section was established to make wildlife conservation effective at a programme organised to coincide with …
Criminal syndicates are currently generating an estimated $258 billion from illegal plunder of the planet's natural capital, says a joint UNEP-Interpol report launched on Saturday ahead of the World Environment Day. The 'Rise of Environmental Crime' report reveals that illegal exploitation and trafficking of flora and fauna has spiked by …
Forest Department officials are struggling to control the fire that broke out in Kottamalaiyar beat in Sankarankovil Range in the Western Ghats on Wednesday night. After the fire broke out at Vazhukkodai Vazhukkuparai in Kottamalaiyar beat after 6 p.m., Chellaiah, president of Kaani Tribes’ Welfare Association, alerted the forest personnel. …
Wildlife crime experts suggested that the new BJP-led government in Assam, for whom curbing rhino poaching was one of the major election promises, should seek cooperation from neighbouring Northeast states for helping tackling the crime. As poachers from the neighbouring states often comes to Assam to kill rhino and its …
Elephants could disappear from one of Africa’s most important wildlife reserves within six years unless industrial scale poaching is stopped and mining is brought under control, the WWF has said. Selous national park, a world heritage site in southern Tanzania, has lost an average of almost 2,500 elephants a year …
Zimbabwe is seeking support from its neighbors to be allowed to engage in international trade in ivory and will not burn its 70 tonnes of ivory stocks as Kenya did last month, the environment minister said on Wednesday. Zimbabwe and Namibia are bidding to open up international trade in elephant …
Black markets are estimated to represent a fifth of global economic activity, but their response to policy is poorly understood because participants systematically hide their actions. It is widely hypothesized that relaxing trade bans in illegal goods allows legal supplies to competitively displace illegal supplies, but a richer economic theory …
Black markets are estimated to represent a fifth of global economic activity, but their response to policy is poorly understood because participants systematically hide their actions. It is widely hypothesized that relaxing trade bans in illegal goods allows legal supplies to competitively displace illegal supplies, but a richer economic theory …
Drones could soon be deployed to keep an eye on wild animals and poachers in forest areas with officials successfully carrying out field trials with five miniature unmanned aerial vehicles in the Muthunga forest in neighbouring Wayanad district. A team of scientists from Aeronautical Development Establishment, National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) …
Tshwane - Minister of Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa has condemned the poaching of two rhino at the Rietvlei Nature Reserve. The two white rhino were killed and dehorned on Thursday evening. In a statement issued on Saturday, Molewa said she was hopeful that the suspects would be arrested and brought …
Five elephants were killed last week by poachers using cyanide in Matabeleland North, Forestry Commission information and communications manager Ms Violet Makoto has said. In a statement, Ms Makoto said Forestry Commission guards who were on patrol discovered the cyanide which was planted on salt licks. "A total of five …
The illegal wildlife trade goes far beyond the dreadful story of ivory poaching. The market across the world for live apes - specifically baby chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans plucked from their forest homes in Africa and Asia - is burgeoning. Also being traded are the heads and skulls of the …
President Uhuru Kenyatta has said he will be taking the fight against trade in ivory to South Africa, a nation that is strongly opposed to destruction of illegal ivory stockpiles. He said this move will be one of the many steps Kenya has taken "to secure a sustainable and resilient …
Zimbabwe will push for the lifting of an international ban on ivory sales, saying that limited sales would allow the government to raise money for conservation and to fight illegal poaching. The southern African country is able to protect elephants only by selling ivory, the government said in a paper …
The poaching and illegal trade of thousands of species across the global present real environmental dangers and undermine the rule of law, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said today, urging shared responsibility among the international community in tackling wildlife and forest crime. Launching its inaugural World …
